To produce this groundbreaking map, the brain of a female adult ... These miswired neurons could be the source of our mind's individuality or brain disorders. However, seeing how the neurons ...

From this information, he was able to map the motor cortex, the very part of the brain you can map in this feature's activity.

The complexity of the human brain—86 billion neurons strong with more than 100 trillion connections—enables abstract thinking, language acquisition, advanced reasoning and problem-solving ...

The brains of animals are the most complex structures on Earth. The human brain contains about eighty six billion nerve cells, or neurons, and an estimated two trillion synaptic connections, where ...

But the mapping of Corina's brain is about to ... how Corina's 28-year-old brain produced Corina's 28-year-old mind? In terms of brain growth, her birth in Santa Paula, a farming community about ...

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Researchers, led in part by University of Nevada, Reno’s Meet Zandawala, identify specific clock neurons that govern daily ...

Using an animal model of multiple sclerosis (MS), researchers have created a four-dimensional brain map that reveals how lesions similar to those seen in human MS form. These findings provide a window ...

Scientists have identified previously unknown neural modules in the brain that control movement and adapt during skill learning. Their findings challenge long-held ideas about how the brain organizes ...

The research involved studying movement control in mice using a combination of optogenetics (controlling neural activity with ...